Word: poetesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Poetess Maria Konopnicka wrote the words: Our native tongue, our native land, Shall we renounce them? Never! . . . Must we be Germans? Rather die; So help us God on high...
Gabriela Mistral, handsome, 56-year-old Chilean poetess (Los Sonetos de la Muerte), found herself still the lioness of social Stockholm a fortnight after receiving the Nobel Prize (TIME, Nov. 26) from towering King Gustaf. Poetess Mistral found Sweden's social democracy "a century ahead of everything else," but prepared to move on to another, gentler climate. Last a resident of Brazil's fair-&-warmer Petropolis, she would now head for California's Los Angeles, hopes to find a home, an office, and settle down...
Gabriela Mistral, greying and 56, is a distinguished Chilean poetess. She is also Chilean consul at Petropolis, the summer capital of Brazil...
Weary of her sinecure. Poetess Mistral last week applied for a transfer to California. Two days later she had callers-the tall Swedish Minister, Ragnar Kumlin, and his elegant wife. Kumlin crossed Gabriela's tiny room and placed a bouquet of pink roses at her feet...
GOODBYE, PROUD WORLD-Margaret Emerson Bailey-Scribner ($3). Teacher-poetess-journalist Bailey describes with intelligent lack of sentiment her childhood in Providence and the benevolent influence of a gentle professor father and a charming, spirited mother...